Mike's Electric Stuff

www.electricstuff.co.uk

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Upcoming public demos, events etc. I'll be participating in
None at present.
I can often be found lurking or presenting at Dorkbotlondon meetings.

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Antique Glass stuff

Loewe multi- valve The first ever integrated circuit, from 1926!	The BIG stuff Serious glass.	High-frequency valves plus klystrons & magnetrons.	Spark gap and triggered gap tubes and small thyratrons.
Miniature valves ..and the cutest little CRT you'll ever see...!	Vintage valves	Mercury Arc Rectifiers How you made DC before silicon.	Lamps etc. Antique / unusual bulbs & arc tubes..
Neon lamps and neon strobe tubes.	Geissler tubes pretty discharge tubes from before the days of neon.	Assorted glass components Weston cells, crystals, geiger tubes, vacuum guage.	Photoelectric Cells and photomultipliers.
Nixie tubes, dekatrons & counting tubes Digital glass stuff.	Nixie Clock project   Full construction details including PCB artwork.	Advertisments for early electronic stuff incuding very early transistors & computing, from the early 1950s.	Interesting old frequency counter Unusual display device
Old technical books online Old technical books covering obsolete technology	Industrial Valve specs and data sheets  Thyratrons, Ignitrons, cold-cathode tubes, power valves etc	Very Clever Glassware including a glass analogue to digital converter and a 256 bit memory tube.	Valve & Vintage electronic Links

Tesla coils and high-voltage stuff

Warning! Tesla coils and their ancillary equipment are VERY VERY dangerous and you should not even THINK about trying to make one unless you really understand the dangers of high-voltage electrical systems. And even then you probably shouldn't.

Tesla coil pictures Trying not to burn down my garage.	Zapping CD's What to do with that Spice Girls CD you got for Xmas.	Lightbulb plasma globe Storm in a bulb.	Laptop Hell  Remember those 'portable' PC's with plasma displays?
Fun with Argon  Inert gas getting slightly more ert.	Zapping Electronic stuff Chip frying.	High voltage demo at the Deutsches Museum, Munich.	UK Teslathon Corby '98 First UK teslathon.
UK Teslathon Corby '99	UK Teslathon Cambridge '99 With AVI's of coils and exploding stuff	UK Teslathon Corby 2000	Fun with a surge generator Can-crushing, ballistic maglev and exploding stuff.
Jacob's Ladders High-voltage flames	Tesla Coil Motor Electric 'wheel of fire' effects.	Fun with Plasma in a xenon flash tube	"Quick & Dirty" Marx Generator Big sparks - fast!
The Destruct-O-Tron Three Thousand Joules of danger!	The Jacobs-Ladder-O-Phone of fire! A new twist on an old HV device	Marx Three A million volts of fun	UK Teslathon Derby 2004
Sparks of Fire High voltage AND flames - cool!	Amberley Teslathon  2004	High-speed camera meets destruct-o-tron Amazing footage!	Destruction in the name of charity
The Spark-O-Phone Sound improvisation by electrons...
	50KV Electron Microscope PSU	Info on high-power pulse switching devices trigatrons, thyratrons and various other -trons.	Tesla coil and high-voltage links

Miscellaneous electric, science & laser stuff

CD Jukebox 1000 CD's at the press of a button.	My Home AV system So complicated I had to draw myself a diagram!	Neodymium magnets Turn a hard disk into a maglev device.	Mystery corner Odd components  - can you figure them out ? .
Old calculator collection.	Ball-bearing motor Odd non- magnetic motor.	How to make really good homebrew PCBs	DIY PCMCIA Serial interface
Unusual digital clocks	Argon laser power supply from surplus switchmode PSUs	Miniature smoke machine for laser experimenters	Fun with an argon laser
Fun with a BIG laser The lights go dim as the beam comes on.....	The mystery of the collapsing Lucozade bottles A strange phenomenon investigated.	The Incredible Shrinking Chip A nice demonstration of how much smaller chips have become over the last decade.	A Laser that burns stuff! Mike's got a CO2 laser - be afraid, be very afraid..!
Backwards PC Case An unusually useful case mod for plug-a-holics	Canon EOS 300D/Rebel/Kiss stuff Modifying EF extension tube, Changing focus screen	Transparent electric stuff	A Handy method for storage of surface-mount components
Build a cheap capacitance box Dial-a-Farad	Probe for in-circuit PIC programming.	High-Speed video camera system 1000 frames/second of fun	Repairing a window with an aquarium pump.
Inside a fake AC Adapter	A Curious Oscillator circuit Probably not useful..	High-speed video images Images from my high-speed camera system. New stuff 9 Apr 2006	Violet laser diode fun
Fun with Ferrofluid And magnets. And Water	Ipod LCD hacking	Hacking the ultra-cheap Sparkfun Colour QVGA LCD	SMT toaster hack Reflow for £5
Cheap serial GPS receiver hack	Cheap laser cutter Cut! Burn! Melt!	Wierd military Processor boards	Ipod Nano V6 LCD hacking
PIC, AVR & other microcontroller stuff Assorted neat microcontroller tips, tricks etc.	Which is better, PIC or AVR ? Let's have a heated debate....		Muppet Alert Dumb emails received
The Junk Box Oddments that don't really fit anywhere else...	Nokia colour LCD driver identifier Philips or Epson..?	Naughty Bits What electronic components get up to when you're not looking...	Science & miscellaneous links

Cynical commercial exploitation department (Warning : may contain something that is actually useful, or something I get paid for...)

Electric Stuff for sale Electric stuff for auction	Thermitrack Thermal imaging people tracker	Universal prototyping board Highly flexible board for DIP and SMD building.	Red-Eye Infra-red protocol converter for Pace UK digital cable boxes
Simple serial imager low-cost, low-res, easy-to-use image sensor.	DMX Cube Anything-to-DMX converter	Playing with London's famous bridges	Building a UFO Yes, really - I actually get paid for doing this stuff!

Press / web articles etc. featuring this site :

EEWeb featured site of the day Jan 2012
EEweb interview Dec 2011
BBC feature on Dorkbotlondon, featuring sparkophone presentation, June 2009
Video of French TV coverage of Dorkcamp 2006, featuring Spark-o-Phone & other fun stuff
Liberation magazine (French) report on Dorkfest 2006 (Try Babelfish for translation)
National Science Digital Library Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology (July 19, 2002)
IEEE Spectrum magazine, June 2002
Electronics Weekly, 5th June 2002
WorldVillage Family (!) Site of the Day
Yahoo! Pick of the week 22nd May 2000
HiFi News magazine October 98 - copy of article here
Also featured on Slashdot and memepool

© Mike Harrison 1998-2011. Email : mike@electricstuff.co.uk